Joyride
2018-06-07 18:25:34.568546+02 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
Joyride: How One Lieutenant Just Became The Military’s Most Unlikely Folk Hero. Some notes on Virginia Army National Guard Lieutenant Joshua Phillip Yabut's theft and joyride in an M577 APC. Notes the first article:
Fortunately for the rest of us, the LT ain’t our problem. Hell, plenty of us are glad it was an officer instead of a lower enlisted. Lord knows I expected it to be some burnt out Specialist who finally decided he’d had enough.
But that brings me to my second point: we’ve all been there. No, I don’t mean we’ve all taken a 12 ton armored personnel carrier out on the highway for shits and giggles. But let’s be honest: we’ve all thought about it. ...
Bonus: RT Alison Macrina @flexlibris:
omfg, the dude who stole an APC and drove it around Virginia while being chased by the police is the same guy who tried to start an "anti-SJW" fork of @torproject back in 2016 after we kicked out a prominent contributor for sexual assault